It turned out that he was Qin Bangping's son!

After Qin Gongming's explanation, Zhu Cihong knew that Yuan Yi was his character, and Lu Zhenfei was commensurate with his character because he was familiar with him.

This can be explained.

Qin Gongming did have a person in history, but he didn't leave a word. Although Zhu Cihong was a professor of Ming history in his previous life, it was impossible to guess what Qin Gongming's words were. Therefore, when he heard Lu Zhenfei call Qin Gong Mingyuan, he didn't think about the Qin family in Sichuan at all.

"Qin Baishu is loyal to the monarch and the country, and he died in the Hun River, and he is very admired."

Hearing the word Hunhe, Qin Gongming's expression was a little lonely.

He sighed: "I think that in the original battle of the Hunhe River, the army was divided into two battalions. The guerrilla Zhou Dunji and his father led their troops across the river to camp north of the bridge. General soldiers Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce, deputy chief soldier Qi Jin, and staff general Zhang Ming Shitong 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers set up camp in the south of the bridge......"

Qin Gongming paused for a moment and continued: "Donglu has used cavalry to attack many times, but he can't take advantage of it at all. If it weren't for Yuan Yingtai's failure to send troops to help, it would have been unknown who would have won or lost! ”

Speaking of this, Qin Gongming's forehead was bruised, and his hands were clenched tightly into fists.

"General Qin was in the army at that time?"

Qin Gongming shook his head.

"At that time, the minister did not go out with his father."

Zhu Cihong bowed slightly.

The tragedy of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River is difficult to describe in words. The 4,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers, and the 3,000 Qijia army Zhejiang soldiers fled back to Liaoyang, except for a very small number of them, basically died in battle to serve the country. If Qin Gongming was also on the battlefield at that time, it is estimated that he would have been martyred.

Fortunately, it is fortunate that this bit of blood has been left for the Qin family.

"General Qin said that he hopes to train this township soldier to be like the Sichuan army, but there is a way?"

Zhu Cihong's words suddenly changed, Qin Gongming was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head: "The ministers are incompetent, the quality of these township soldiers is much worse than the stone pillar soldiers, I'm afraid it will be difficult to train like the Sichuan army." ”

Zhu Cihong smiled but did not speak.

In his view, the quality of the soldiers themselves is important, but so is the training method.

The establishment of the white pole soldiers is suitable for mountain warfare, but it may not be suitable for the plains. A single class of troops is easy for the enemy army to find a breakthrough, and in Zhu Cihong's opinion, the Qi family army trained by Qi Jiguang is more suitable as a benchmark.

"Lone has an idea."

Zhu Cihong paused for a moment and said, "Can you train the township soldiers in the way Qi Shaobao's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness"?" ”

Qin Gongming was born in Jiangmen, so he naturally heard of the Qi family's army. In fact, the Battle of the Hunhe River was a cooperation between the Sichuan White Pole Soldiers and the Qijia Army and the Zhejiang Soldiers.

The Sichuan army led by the Qin family is famous all over the world, and in their opinion, the rest of the Ming army is not worth mentioning, only the Qi family army is worthy of respect. The strong will only respect the strong, and this is what sympathy is said.

Now that Zhu Cihong proposed to train the township soldiers according to the method of "Ji Xiao Xinshu", Qin Gongming did not refuse, but fell into contemplation.

After a long time, he clenched his fists and said, "The minister is willing to give it a try." ”

Zhu Cihong breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that Qin Gongming would come up stubbornly and not give him face.

Although the Sichuan soldiers are also very sharp, the Qin family did not leave a systematic training method, and the single class of the white pole soldiers is not the best choice.

And Qi Jiajun's training method is clearly written in the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness".

Rao is Zhu Cihong doesn't know much about military affairs, but he can also understand the formation common sense written on it.

He believed that with a general like Qin Gongming and training according to the methods in the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", he would definitely be able to raise the combat level of the 20,000 township soldiers by a large margin.

Qin Gongming asked about Shenjing's situation again, and when he learned that Shenjing was in danger, he was furious.

Zhu Cihong believed that as long as he made the next order, Qin Gongming would not hesitate to lead these 20,000 villagers to the north to King Qin.

Of course, he won't make this will, as soon as most of the Jingshi has been broken now, it will be useless to rush there. Second, the combat power of these township soldiers is indeed too low, and rushing over is also filling in the teeth.

If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, in order to recover Shenjing, you must endure it when you should endure.

Of course, Zhu Cihong will not pin all his hopes on these 20,000 villagers. He planned to recruit some miners in Yiwu and other places, and some batons along the Huaiyang Canal to work at the wharves.

These people are the most able to endure hardships, and it is most suitable to use them as a team to form a new army.

The officialdom and army at the end of the Ming Dynasty were already rotten to the roots, and if we wanted to turn the tables around, we must not rely on those warlords, and it was indispensable to train the township soldiers and form a new army.

Zhu Cihong said some words of encouragement to Qin Gongming again, and then left the regimental training general military office with Lu Zhenfei, and returned to the old city of Huai'an after Jiacheng.

Governor Lu Zhenfei enthusiastically led the prince to visit his governor's standard camp.

Unlike those village soldiers, the soldiers of the Governor's Standard Battalion were all equipped with waist knives, long knives, and spears, but their firearms were a little stretched. There was no artillery except for four Tiger squat guns and two Little Franc machines. There are also very few firecrackers, and basically only one out of ten people can be guaranteed, and it is still the bird gun with the worst accuracy.

The production process of this bird gun is very crude, and it is often blown up, so that the soldiers are afraid of the gun like a tiger, and some dare not use the bird gun at all, preferring to use a bow and crossbow.

Zhu Cihong shook his head.

I think that when Ming Chengzu established the Shenji Battalion and vigorously developed firearms, the Daming Firearms Force at that time was in a leading position in the world. Unexpectedly, two hundred years have passed, and the proportion of firearms in the Ming army is getting lower and lower. That is to say, the proportion of firearms in the Qi family army can exceed fifty percent, and the rest of the border army and the superintendent standard battalion are estimated to not even have a single CD.

The only way to change this situation is to find a way to do it at the source. Zhu Cihong felt the need to set up a firearms bureau to allow craftsmen to develop new firearms and build assembly lines to produce firearms and artillery.

Of course, this requires a lot of financial support. At present, Zhu Cihong obviously can't provide it, and he can't put it on the agenda until he ascends the throne and succeeds to the throne.

After inspecting the governor's standard camp, Zhu Cihong and Lu Zhenfei returned to the governor's yamen together.

The little eunuch Liu Chuanzong and the guard Zhao Xin have been closely guarding Zhu Cihong's side, never leaving.

Although they could see that Governor Lu was a loyal minister and would not be detrimental to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it was difficult to ensure that some people with ill intentions were hiding in the shadows. If these people are allowed to hurt His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, they will die without forgiveness.

Zhu Cihong was waiting for the news of the fall of Jingshi to reach Huai'an, and he was not in a hurry to go to Nanjing. After entering the back hall of the governor's office and sitting down, Zhu Cihong asked Lu Zhenfei without a match: "I heard that Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, discussed the matter of going to Nanjing to supervise the country, I wonder if Haoyue Gong can hear about it?" ”

Lu Zhenfei shook his head and said, "I don't know where His Highness got the news?" Shi Butang did have this idea, but Governor Ma did not express it. ”

Zhu Cihong was originally tempting, and only nodded lightly when he heard this.

"Report! Urgent! ”

At that time, a pro-soldier stumbled out of the door of the back hall.

Lu Zhenfei was very displeased, and scolded him before letting him in.

"Your Excellency, the chief soldier Gao Jie has arrived in Huai'an and asked to be stationed in the city!"

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